智汇商学院2017年度初中英语学科期末考试姓名：年级：得分：命题人-邝艳丽第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节:(共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项。

AMore and more people like bicycling and it is no surprise. It is fun, healthy and good for the environment. May be that’s why there are 1.4 billion bicycles and only 400 million cars on roads worldwide today. Bikes can take you almost anywhere, and there is no oil cost!Get on a bicycle and ride around your neighborhood. You may discover something new all around you. Stopping and getting off a bike is easier than stopping and getting out of your car. You can bike to work and benefit(受益)from the enjoyable exercise without polluting the environment. You don’t even have to ride all the way.Folding (折叠) bikes work well for people who ride the train. Just fold the bike and take it with you. You can do the same on an airplane. A folding bike can be packed in a suitcase. You can also take a common bike with you when you fly. But be sure to look for information by getting on airline websites. Not all airlines are bicycle-friendly to travelers.Health Benefits of Bicycling:It helps to prevent heart diseases.Bicycling helps to control your weight. A 15-minute bike ride to and from work three times a week burns off five kilos of fat in a year. Bicycling can improve your mood (心情).Exercise like bicycling has been shown to make people feel better, more relaxed and self-confident. Bicycling is healthier than driving.( ) 1. From the passage, we know that bicycling is becoming very .A. surprisingB. excitingC. expensiveD. popular( ) 2 When you are riding your bicycle around your neighbourhood, you may .A. pollute the environment aroundB. find something you didn’t noticeC. go everywhere and use a little oilD. get off your bike and begin to work( ) 3. If you travel with a folding bike, you can fold it and _ .A. get out of the carB. take it onto a trainC. put it in your purseD. go on airline websites( ) 4. One of the benefits from bicycling is that .A. you can fold the bicycleB. you will be friendly to othersC. you will be more relaxedD. you may get fatter and fatter( ) 5. Which is TRUE according to the passage?A. Bicycling is enjoyable exercise for people.B. Driving cars is healthier than riding bikes.C. Riding a bike pollutes your neighbourhood.D. Common bikes are welcomed by all airlines.BWho wants to carry a bulky bag to school? No children. Nobody wants one shoulder to be lower than the other, and paining（疼痛）too. In India, most of us would look at the reduction（减少）of textbooks as a way out. But in a country like America, there are always more choices. A company called goReader has created a "school bag" which is the size of a laptop computer（笔记本电脑）, weighing about 2.5 kg. The goReader has a color screen and can "hold" all the textbooks that a student may need, says a report in 'The Asian Age' newspaper.The company plans to work closely with the publishers（出版商）of textbooks so that these books can be supplied on the Internet. All the students will have to do is to download（下载）their textbooks. Making notes and marking important parts of a lesson can be done just as lots of students have done on their textbooks before.At present, the plan is being tested out in a university. Richard Katzmann, the owner of the company is having his creation tested at Chicago's DePaul University, where he studied. Does that mean it is goodbye to the new paper, and the smell of the black ink?( )6. What does the underlined word “bulky” in the first line mean?A. lightB. smallC. big and heavyD. old( )7. What would Indians do to solve（解决）the problem?A.They would reduce the textbooks.B. They would tell the parents to help students.C. They would tell the teachers to help students.D. They would take students to school by bus.( )8. The writer may think that Americans have a ________ way to solve the problem.A. more stupidB. worseC. betterD. quickerCLong, long ago there lived a poor young boy in a small village. He was about ten years old. His parents were dead when he was eight. He had to make a living himself. Every afternoon, he walked around the village selling his cooking oil. He carried the oil in a small wooden basin.After he sold all of his oil one afternoon, he was very tired. He thought that he would have a rest. He left his wooden basin under a tree, put the money in it and fell asleep.About two hours later, he woke up because of hunger. He looked into the basin and found that his money was gone. He was very worried.He went at once to see a judge. The judge listened to the boy’s story very carefully. He thought for a while, and then said to the men in his office, “Go and get all thevillagers here.”When all the villagers came, he said to them, “ The boy is an orphan. He had lost his mone y. We should help him.” Then he asked that everyone should put a coin into the water in a big basin. About half of the people had put their coins into the water. ”wait a minute,” the judge said, “You took away the boy’s money. You see ,after you put your coin into the water, some oil came up to the top. Your money must have been taken from the oil basin.”( )9. The poor young boy sold _______ .A. chipsB. cooking oilC. orange juiceD. chicken( )10. The boy put his wooden basin ________ and then he fell asleep.A. under a treeB. in a roomC. on a tableD. on a stone( )11. _________, the boy woke up.A. After about two hoursB. After he saw the judgeC. When he found his money was goneD. When all the village people cameDPeople usually celebrate special occasions by preparing special food. Families may prepare traditional dinners for holidays such as New Year’s and Thanksgiving. Birthdays and other special days are often times for baking special cakes. Even celebrations famous only in small areas, such as memorial days for a place or event, can be a time for proud cooks to show of the food that they make the best. Sometimes this food may seem a little strange to the rest of us.Weddings are celebrations where food is often an important part of the ceremony or party. Of course, the kinds of the prepared for wedding are different all around the world. One kind of food enjoyed at wedding in the Middle East and some parts of North Africa by members of the Bedouin tribe is roasted camel. This food is not easy prepare, but when people want to go all for the wedding, they ask the whole tribe to help with the effort. Tribe members first cook an egg mixture which they then put inside cooked fish. The fish are then put inside several cooked chickens. The chickens then get put into roasted sheep. Usually one or two sheep will be enough to fill one roasted camel. One roasted camel serves 20 or 30 people, so this dish may be enjoyed by the entire tribe at the wedding.Chocolate chip cookies may not seem like a very special food, but organizers of the yearly festival which celebrates the city’s birth in Ripon, Wisconsin made one cookie that was very special. On July 11, 1992, festival organizers attempted to bake the largest chocolate chip cookie in the world. Tit took the organizers months of planning and experimentation before they thought up a way to bake the cookie on a large, slowly turning tray. The recipe which the bakers used called for one and a half tons raw cookie dough, made up of a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and milk. They also mixed four million chocolate chips into the dough. The tray was 10 meters(34 feet ) across the middle, and it rotated so that one part of the cooked passed over a low flame that did not move. The cookie took two and a half hours to bake. Organizers of the festival then cut up the cookie and served it to 8,163 people at the festival.( )12. What two holidays are mentioned in the passage ?A. Christmas and New Year’sB. New Year’s and ThanksgivingC. Thanksgiving and ChristmasD. Weddings and anniversaries ( )13. Who makes roasted camel?A. AmericansB. EuropeansC. BedouinsD. Festival organizers ( )14. How many different creatures are use to cook the largest chocolate chip cookie in the world?A. FourB. ThreeC. TwoD. One( )15. What did the festival organizers use to cook the largest chocolate chip cookie in the world?A. A giant ovenB. A turning trayC. A large fireD. A restaurant第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项是多余选项。